Write Http Api

  • InfluxDB uses HTTP solely as a convenient and widely supported data transfer protocol
  • Modern web APIs have settled on REST because it addresses a common need
  • REST is the industry agreed style for organizing large numbers of endpoints
  • InfluxDB makes do with few API endpoints as a transfer method for InfluxQL:
    /write
/query
/ping
/debug/requests
  • InfluxDB API makes no attempt to be RESTful
  • Sample request:
    curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:8086/write?db=NOAA_water_database' \
--data-binary 'h2o_feet,location=coyote_creek,level\ description=between\ 6\ and\ 9\ feet water_level=8.12'
  • Success response:
    HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Type: application/json
Request-Id: c57f0ef2-c654-11e7-80fd-000000000000
X-Influxdb-Version: 1.3.4
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:21:45 GMT

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